It’s like working with the dumbest, most arrogant intern you could imagine. It has perfect recall of the docs but no understating of them.

An example from last week:

Me: Do this.

AI: OK.

<Brings me code that looks like it accomplishes the task but after looking at it it’s accomplishing it in a monkey’s paw/spiteful genie kind of way.>

Me: Not quite, you didn’t take this into account. But I made the same mistake while learning so I can pull it back on track.

AI: OK

<It’s worse, and why are all the values hardcoded now?>

…

40 minutes go by. The simplest, smallest bit of code is almost right.

Me: Alright, abstract it into a Sass mixin.

AI: OK.

<Has no idea how to do it. It installed Sass, but with no understanding of what it’s working on so the mixin implementation looks almost random. Why is that the argument? What is it even trying to accomplish here?>

At which point I just give up and hand code the thing in 10 minutes.

It would be neat if AI worked. It doesn’t.